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Posts tagged with 'documentary' at MetaFilter.Sun, 02 Aug 2015 06:05:41 -0800Sun, 02 Aug 2015 06:05:41 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Don't worry, you probably won't be secretly murdered if you watch this.http://www.metafilter.com/151751/Dont%2Dworry%2Dyou%2Dprobably%2Dwont%2Dbe%2Dsecretly%2Dmurdered%2Dif%2Dyou%2Dwatch%2Dthis
In 1991, a documentary, intended to be the first of a series on celebrity businessmen, was completed. <a href="http://trumpthemovie.com/aboutthefilm">It was screened twice,</a> but <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/theres-a-movie-donald-tru_b_7910910.html">its subject prevented its release</a> and it was clear that continuing the series wasn't worth the trouble. So why has that film been released almost a quarter of a century later? Because that same businessman is now running for president. <a href="http://trumpthemovie.com/watch">Trump: What's the Deal?</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qy75pRQKMU">trailer</a>, <a href="https://vimeo.com/134895538">direct Vimeo link to full film</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amlD_TTFMWA">unofficial YouTube mirror</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151751Sun, 02 Aug 2015 06:05:41 -0800BiggerJ"There was art before him and art after him and they were not the same."http://www.metafilter.com/151739/There%2Dwas%2Dart%2Dbefore%2Dhim%2Dand%2Dart%2Dafter%2Dhim%2Dand%2Dthey%2Dwere%2Dnot%2Dthe%2Dsame
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv6LAYWQZj4">Caravaggio <small>[Part 1]</small></a> <small><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwuAmdDlW-M">[Part 2]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcxlXQXYmIw">[Part 3]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZELggsyQb80">[Part 4]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tVVQuDf4lU">[Part 5]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHRUjZe_dHY">[Part 6]</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AFwlVEhBYU">[Part 7]</a></small>
Art critic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(critic)">Robert Hughes</a> reflects on the work of troubled Italian artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravaggio">Caravaggio</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151739Sat, 01 Aug 2015 17:02:46 -0800Fizz"I knew that the traditional role was not going to be enough for me."http://www.metafilter.com/151304/I%2Dknew%2Dthat%2Dthe%2Dtraditional%2Drole%2Dwas%2Dnot%2Dgoing%2Dto%2Dbe%2Denough%2Dfor%2Dme
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/07/16/pioneering_journalist_marlene_sanders_she_made_media_take_feminism_seriously.html">Marlene Sanders' Feminist Legacy</a> [<em>Slate</em> obit] - "She <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-marlene-sanders-20150715-story.html">wrote</a> of her accomplishments: 'As I look back on my career, the women's movement provided an exceptional point when time, place and position all came together to give me the power and focus to contribute to the country's awareness of the status of women.'" From the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/business/media/marlene-sanders-pathbreaking-tv-journalist-dies-at-84.html"><em>New York Times</em> obituary</a> by William Grimes:
<blockquote>"In television newsrooms populated almost entirely by men, Ms. Sanders made remarkable inroads. In 1964, viewers beheld the rare &mdash; in fact, unprecedented &mdash; sight of a woman behind the anchor desk of a network news program when she substituted for Ron Cochran, who was sidelined with a throat ailment, on the evening news on ABC. She later took over for Sam Donaldson as the anchor of ABC's weekend news for three months in 1971.
"She became one of the first network newswomen to report from the field in Vietnam, in 1966, and one of the first women to rise to the upper reaches of management when ABC made her vice president and director of documentaries in 1976.
"'Marlene Sanders got there first,' the journalist Bill Moyers told The Associated Press. 'That women are finally recognized as first-rate professionals is due in no small part to the pathbreaking courage of Marlene Sanders.'</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151304Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:28:34 -0800joseph conrad is fully awesome"You can go wild on the wall, everything that comes to your imagination"http://www.metafilter.com/151303/You%2Dcan%2Dgo%2Dwild%2Don%2Dthe%2Dwall%2Deverything%2Dthat%2Dcomes%2Dto%2Dyour%2Dimagination
<em>"The thing I find very exciting is waiting for the subway train and sometimes you'll get a glorious one that arrives decorated like a birthday cake!"</em> <em><a href="http://youtu.be/A_4WzS_qSGQ">Watching My Name Go By</a></em> is a short 1976 BBC documentary about graffiti, artists, and graffiti artists in New York City. The film is based on Norman Mailer's 1974 essay for <em>Esquire</em> magazine, "<a href="http://testpressing.org/2012/06/esquire-the-faith-of-graffiti-norman-mailer/">The Faith of Grafitti</a>." <small>[<em><a href="http://dangerousminds.net/comments/watching_my_name_go_by_a_must_see_vintage_short_film_on_graffiti_in_1976_ny">via</a></em>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151303Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:14:12 -0800Room 641-ASugar Plantations in the West Indieshttp://www.metafilter.com/151173/Sugar%2DPlantations%2Din%2Dthe%2DWest%2DIndies
<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/12/british-history-slavery-buried-scale-revealed">The history of British slave ownership has been buried: now its scale can be revealed</a> The T71 files have been converted into an online database; a free, publicly available resource. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.151173Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:49:05 -0800infini"I've been a boy for three years and I was a girl for six."http://www.metafilter.com/150872/Ive%2Dbeen%2Da%2Dboy%2Dfor%2Dthree%2Dyears%2Dand%2DI%2Dwas%2Da%2Dgirl%2Dfor%2Dsix
Esteemed <a href="http://www.pbs.org/">PBS</a> series <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/"><em>Frontline</em></a> has produced a new documentary profiling a number of trans children and their families in the U.S. today: <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/growing-up-trans/">Growing Up Trans</a>. There will be a <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/whats-it-like-growing-up-trans-google-hangout-71-at-32c/">Google Hangout</a> with the producers and several of the film's subjects on July 1, at 3 PM EST. Inside, please find a number of articles released by <em>Frontline</em> to flesh out the film. From <em>Frontline's</em> writers:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/it-was-kind-of-like-a-double-life-meet-ariel-who-is-growing-up-trans/">"It Was Kind of Like a Double Life": Meet Ariel, Who Is Growing Up Trans</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/meet-the-prom-queen-who-was-born-a-boy-but-is-now-just-a-girl/">Meet the Prom Queen Who Grew Up Trans But is Now "Just a Girl"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/how-to-be-a-guy-when-you-are-young-and-transgender/">How To Be a "Guy" When You Are Young and Transgender</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/whats-it-like-to-start-taking-testosterone-at-age-15/">What's It Like to Start Taking Testosterone at Age 15?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/i-like-to-exist-as-a-person-what-it-means-to-live-beyond-gender/">"I Like to Exist as a Person": What It Means to Live Beyond Gender</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/when-transgender-kids-transition-medical-risks-are-both-known-and-unknown/">When Transgender Kids Transition, Medical Risks are Both Known and Unknown</a></li>
</ul>
From two of the documentary's subjects:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/i-am-a-woman-because-i-say-i-am/">"I Am a Woman Because I Say I Am"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/health-science-technology/growing-up-trans/what-makes-you-your-gender/">What Makes You Your Gender?</a></li>
</ul> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150872Wed, 01 Jul 2015 11:36:20 -0800Going To Maine"I just want to spend my money on food & beers & going to hear music."http://www.metafilter.com/150836/I%2Djust%2Dwant%2Dto%2Dspend%2Dmy%2Dmoney%2Don%2Dfood%2Dand%2Dbeers%2Dand%2Dgoing%2Dto%2Dhear%2Dmusic
<a href="http://munchies.vice.com/articles/paxx-trans-chef-puerto-rico">Chef Paxx Caraballo Moll is a rock-n-roll chef who creates inventive vegetarian food with the native foods of Puerto Rico.</a></br>
<br>They're also one of nine individuals profiled in <a href="http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/exclusive-meet-the-subjects-of-tribeca-doc-mala-mala-20140409">Mala Mala</a>, a feature length documentary exploring the lives of young Puerto Ricans in the trans community that recently <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzEy6pJ80nw">premiered</a> at the Tribeca film festival. Moll uses they/them pronouns. <a href="http://www.glaad.org/transgender/transfaq">Trans 101</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150836Tue, 30 Jun 2015 09:50:00 -0800Juliet BananaA T O M I C !http://www.metafilter.com/150771/A%2DT%2DO%2DM%2DI%2DC
<a href="https://youtu.be/tuBc4P_gl_s">Top Of The Pops - The Story 0f 1980</a> [SLYT] tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150771Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:09:10 -0800joseph conrad is fully awesomeAmerican Revolutionaryhttp://www.metafilter.com/150762/American%2DRevolutionary
<strong>For this weekend only</strong>, you can watch the award winning documentary <a href="http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/2015/06/26/grace-lee-boggs-free-stream/29344807/">"American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs"</a>. <em>"It tells the story of Chinese American and Detroit icon who has spent 70-some years as a writer, activist and philosopher with an eye on social justice and change. The portrait by filmmaker Grace Lee (who is not related) finds Grace Lee Boggs at the forefront of major movements of the past century.."</em> Today, June 27th, 2015, is Grace's 100th birthday. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150762Sat, 27 Jun 2015 03:27:34 -0800HuronBobUnder cover of darkness, female janitors face rape and assaulthttp://www.metafilter.com/150747/Under%2Dcover%2Dof%2Ddarkness%2Dfemale%2Djanitors%2Dface%2Drape%2Dand%2Dassault
<a href="https://www.revealnews.org/article/under-cover-of-darkness-female-janitors-face-rape-and-assault/">Rape on the Night Shift:</a> Every night, as most of us head home, janitors across America, many of them women, begin their night shift. They are often alone or isolated in empty buildings — and vulnerable to sexual violence. On Tuesday, a <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2365515054/">PBS Frontline</a>/<a href="https://www.revealnews.org/nightshift/">Reveal</a> investigation explored ways sexual violence against janitors is going unreported and unpunished. <small><b>All content is SFW, but some may find descriptions in the links in this post disturbing.</b></small> <strong>Watch</strong>
* Univision has a <a href="http://noticias.univision.com/documentales/violacion-de-un-sueno/">Spanish-language version</a>. Their documentary, <em>Violación de un Sueño: Jornada Nocturna,</em> aired on Saturday, June 20
* PBS' <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-on-the-night-shift/">main page</a>.
* Reveal's English-language national radio show will air on public radio stations across the U.S. starting Saturday, July 4, with a special Spanish-language podcast also being released on iTunes.
<strong>Listen</strong>
* KQED's Central Valley bureau chief, Sasha Khokha, has <a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/">a three-part radio series on how the story has played out in California</a>:
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -- In <a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/working-alone-at-night-janitors-risk-sexual-violence-rape-on-the-night-shift/">Part 1</a>, Khokha looks into what happened when ABM, the nation's largest janitorial employer, was sued by 21 women for allegedly failing to protect them from sexual harassment and assault by 14 men working for the company.
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -- In <a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/whats-government-doing-prevent-janitors-getting-raped-rape-on-the-night-shift/">Part 2</a>, she looks at what the government is doing to prevent janitors from getting raped.
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; -- In <a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/23/former-janitors-go-undercover-to-clean-up-abuses-rape-on-the-night-shift/">Part 3</a>, we meet some former janitors who have gone undercover to clean up abuses.
<strong>Additional Articles and Reporting</strong>
* <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/immigration-2/rape-on-the-night-shift/by-the-numbers-the-magnitude-of-rape-and-sexual-assault/">By the Numbers: The Magnitude of Rape and Sexual Assault</a>.
* <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/immigration-2/rape-on-the-night-shift/undocumented-sexual-assault-victims-face-backlash-and-backlog/">Undocumented Sexual Assault Victims Face Backlash and Backlog</a>
* <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/immigration-2/rape-on-the-night-shift/abm-responds/">ABM responds</a> Reporters for Frontline spent more than a year asking ABM for an on-camera interview. The company declined, but eventually provided a video statement.
* <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/immigration-2/rape-in-the-fields/the-eeoc-at-the-vanguard-of-fight-against-discrimination/">The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC): At the "Vanguard" of Fight Against Discrimination</a>
<strong>Previously on MeFi</strong>:
* <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/129447/Rape-on-the-Job-in-America">Rape in the Fields</a>: a Frontline documentary exploring the persistent allegations that female agricultural workers in the U.S. are frequently sexually assaulted and harassed by supervisors who exploit their (often undocumented) immigrant status. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/rape-in-the-fields/">Available to stream on PBS' website</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150747Fri, 26 Jun 2015 07:06:57 -0800zarq"It is an artist's duty to reflect the times."http://www.metafilter.com/150666/It%2Dis%2Dan%2Dartists%2Dduty%2Dto%2Dreflect%2Dthe%2Dtimes
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moOQXZxriKY">What Happened, Miss Simone? <small>[YouTube] [Trailer] </small></a> Helmed by Oscar-nominated director <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Garbus">Liz Garbus</a> (Bobby Fischer Against the World, Killing in the Name), the fully authorized doc incorporates concert footage, archival material, and interviews taking place over three decades. The movie will be available on Netflix June 26. <strong>Related:</strong>
'Are you ready to burn buildings?' <small>[<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jun/22/nina-simone-documentary-what-happened-miss-simone">The Guardian</a>]</small>
<blockquote> What Happened, Miss Simone? makes the case that <a href="http://www.ninasimone.com/">Simone</a> was not only one of the most talented musicians of the 20th century but one of the most troubled and unlucky. It shows how she always felt she had been denied her true calling; how she never achieved the success that prettier, more biddable singers enjoyed; how she invested so much of herself in the civil rights movement that she was shattered when it faltered; how she suffered physical abuse from her husband and manager Andrew Stroud and inflicted it on her daughter Lisa; how her bipolar condition was only diagnosed in the 1980s, long after her volatility had inflicted irreparable damage. She was an outcast who only briefly found safe harbour — first as a wife and mother, then as an activist – before it was snatched away. Not fitting in made her great, but it also made her angry and very lonely.
</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150666Tue, 23 Jun 2015 09:16:32 -0800Fizzthe rejectedhttp://www.metafilter.com/150522/the%2Drejected
<a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/06/09/archivists-recover-lost-1961-tv-documentary-on-homosexuality">archivists recover</a> '<a href="http://www.out.com/popnography/2015/5/26/first-documentary-homosexuality-ever-aired-us-long-thought-lost-now-online">lost</a>' <a href="https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/225539">1961 tv documentary on homosexuality</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150522Wed, 17 Jun 2015 05:41:59 -0800and they trembled before her furyNothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.http://www.metafilter.com/150338/Nothing%2Dthat%2Dsurrounds%2Dus%2Dis%2Dobject%2Dall%2Dis%2Dsubject
Archive.org gives us the two part (<a href="https://archive.org/details/theshockofthenewthresholdoflibertypartone_201504">1</a>) <em>The Threshold of Liberty</em> (<a href="https://archive.org/details/theshockofthenewthethresholdoflibertypart1_201505">II</a>) from the Robert Hughes 1980 BBC documentary <em>Shock of the New</em>.<br>
This episode examined the surrealists' attempts to make art without restrictions.
The title is a reference to <a href="http://www.renemagritte.org/on-the-threshold-of-liberty.jsp#prettyPhoto">a piece</a> by René Magritte.<br>
(<small> Unfortunately all the main links in this <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/116199/Robert-Hughes-The-Shock-of-the-New">fine post</a> by Trurl are gone </small>) tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150338Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:26:23 -0800adamvasco"Doubt makes a man decent."http://www.metafilter.com/150312/Doubt%2Dmakes%2Da%2Dman%2Ddecent
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGhQlppUdOA&amp;feature=youtu.be">Harry Crews: Guilty As Charged <small>[YouTube]</small></a> <blockquote>Examines the <a href="http://www.harrycrews.org/">life </a>and <a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79-78641/">work</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Crews">Harry Crews</a>. Appearances by James Dickey, Byron Crews, Maggie Powell, Johnny Fieber and William Schafer. Music by Frank Schaap and Byron Crews. Associate Producers: Robert Morris and Latelle Lafollette. Camera and Lighting by Mike Brower and Arthur Rouse. Edited by Tom Thurman and Mike Brower.</blockquote>
<small><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/114371/A-Large-and-Startling-Figure">Previously</a>.</small> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150312Tue, 09 Jun 2015 07:12:35 -0800FizzLahore Landing: 'an interactive documentary on another side of Pakistan'http://www.metafilter.com/150153/Lahore%2DLanding%2Dan%2Dinteractive%2Ddocumentary%2Don%2Danother%2Dside%2Dof%2DPakistan
<em><a href="http://www.lahorelanding.com/">Lahore Landing</a></em>, an interactive documentary. "It all started when Taahira went to Karachi for a journalism internship ... Over Skype calls, she shared with us her experience – from underground indie rock concerts to alfresco BBQ nights. It surprised us. It seemed that all the media shared about life in Pakistan was a world of violence and terrorism when it was a lot more than that." With a modest Indiegogo funding of <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lahore-landing-an-interactive-documentary#/story">USD2400</a>, four final-year students from the Wee Kim Wee School of Journalism at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University produced <em>Lahore Landing</em>, their final-year project, and an ode of a 'side of Pakistan that we don't see'. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150153Wed, 03 Jun 2015 07:48:48 -0800undue influenceThe Best Band You've Never Heard Ofhttp://www.metafilter.com/150012/The%2DBest%2DBand%2DYouve%2DNever%2DHeard%2DOf
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e5NbTgOvnk">Tell Me Do You Miss Me - A Film About Luna</a> is a strangely fascinating 2006 documentary about the indie band's 2005 farewell tour. It often seems more like a vacation souvenir home video than a documentary, surprisingly intimate and personal, with obvious affection, tension and rehashing of old arguments between band founder Dean Wareham and guitar player Sean Eden. Surprisingly open and honest, it's a slice of life we rarely get to see, we're so used to tour films being about really famous bands, not smaller bands who may be able to make a living from their music, but who are only going to make money on tour if they sell enough merchandise (that gets lost by the airline). Really worth a watch, and available in its entirety on YouTube. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_%281990s_American_band%29">Luna (wiki)</a> was a dream pop indie band that split up in 2005, and <a href="http://www.axs.com/luna-reunites-and-announces-tour-dates-31716">reunited this year</a>. They always coasted just below making it big, despite wry, clever lyrics and really interesting music. And Rolling Stone called them "<a href="http://demomagazine.ca/2013/10/11/bands-from-the-dead-luna/">the best band you've never heard of</a>".
A few suggested tracks:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZLw6zMRsyQ">Pup Tent</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBnWjgiIN10">Fuzzy Wuzzy</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDkY3NCGxK8">23 Minutes In Brussels</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CawQaPXu-QA">Friendly Advice</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.150012Thu, 28 May 2015 18:14:15 -0800biscottiYou won't regret that tattoo.http://www.metafilter.com/149974/You%2Dwont%2Dregret%2Dthat%2Dtattoo
<a href="https://vimeo.com/89546048">You won't regret that tattoo.</a> Single link Vimeo. A short, sweet first documentary by <a href="http://kojo.com.au/content/directors/angie-bird/">Angie Bird</a>, via the <a href="http://tattoohistorian.com/">Tattoo Historian</a> at <a href="http://tattoohistorian.com/tattoo-history-daily/">Tattoo History Daily</a>.
(Somewhat <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/143072/Getting-tattoos-wrong">previously</a> on the Tattoo Historian, Dr. Anna Felicity Friedman.) tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149974Wed, 27 May 2015 11:02:08 -0800blue suede stockingsB.B. St. Romanhttp://www.metafilter.com/149861/BB%2DSt%2DRoman
<a href='http://www.eisradio.org/item/013/'>B.B. St. Roman</a> [formerly Barbara Becker] is the only staff member for the New Orleans Police Department Homeless Assistant Unit. Before helping the homeless, she traveled the world, recording sound for documentaries .... And at one point, she became the tour manager for Dr. John, Louisiana musician and legend.
Her film audio credits include <a href='http://petrieproductions.com/about.aspx'>Mother Teresa</a> and <a href='http://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/distribution/news/single/article/4782/2808.html'>Shamans of the Blind Country</a> a film ethnography of the Himalayas.
<a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsHPdh1Yfv8'>TEDx talk</a>, and here's her <a href='https://www.facebook.com/bb.stroman'>Facebook page</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149861Fri, 22 May 2015 13:25:58 -0800latkes"Everything is some kind of a plot, man."http://www.metafilter.com/149530/Everything%2Dis%2Dsome%2Dkind%2Dof%2Da%2Dplot%2Dman
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwXLDvAk5LA">A Journey Into the Mind of P. <small>[YouTube]</small></a> <blockquote>A documentary, written &amp; directed by Donatello Dubini &amp; Fosco Dubini, mostly on the authors [Thomas Pynchon] reclusivness, how it's been dealt with by some hysterical fans, old friends, critics... containing some interesting interviews &amp; speculations on the themes of Gravity's Rainbow &amp; how they relate to the historical realities of the american fifties &amp; sixties, the paranoid politics of cold war logic, megalomaniac experimental psychology, the callous mindset of military engineering, &amp; so on...</blockquote> Related: Have you seen this man? <small>[<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/may/05/artsfeatures.fiction">The Guardian</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.149530Sun, 10 May 2015 19:11:40 -0800FizzI'm a man in a dress, and I'm not afraid to show thathttp://www.metafilter.com/148952/Im%2Da%2Dman%2Din%2Da%2Ddress%2Dand%2DIm%2Dnot%2Dafraid%2Dto%2Dshow%2Dthat
<a href="http://jameshosking.com/beautiful-by-night/">Beautiful by Night</a> is a short documentary by James Hosking about veteran drag queens in San Francisco. About Aunt Charlie's, from Out Magazine: <a href="http://www.out.com/travel-nightlife/city-guides/san-francisco/2014/08/13/tenderloin-night-stars-sf-drag%E2%80%99s-gritty">Tender(loin) is the Night</a>
Hosking also has photo galleries of the three performers featured: <a href="http://jameshosking.com/donna/">Donna</a>, <a href="http://jameshosking.com/olivia/">Olivia</a> and <a href="http://jameshosking.com/collette/">Collette</a>.
(<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2015/04/aunt-charlies-drag-james-hosking">via</a>) tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148952Sat, 18 Apr 2015 22:03:36 -0800frimbleK.C. Jeebieshttp://www.metafilter.com/148682/KC%2DJeebies
<em><blockquote>There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity. Tropic of Cancer is one of my favorite books. And [author] Henry Miller had this work ethic, where he would get out of bed every day and force himself to write five pages. It taught me that if you do the work, you progress. So many people are content to settle. My dad was exceptionally ambitious. But he had a lot thrown on him, exceeding his ambition. He wanted his band to be successful. But he didn't want to be the fucking voice of a generation.</blockquote></em>
<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/frances-bean-life-after-kurt-cobain-death-exclusive-interview-20150408">Excerpts from an interview</a> with Frances Bean Cobain for Rolling Stone's <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kurt-cobain-exclusive-montage-of-heck-song-inside-new-issue-20150408">cover story</a> in anticipation of the HBO documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IBWbpJdRMQ">Montage of Heck</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148682Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:16:19 -0800mannequitoSTREETWISE, a riveting 1984 doc that follows runaway kids in Seattlehttp://www.metafilter.com/148221/STREETWISE%2Da%2Driveting%2D1984%2Ddoc%2Dthat%2Dfollows%2Drunaway%2Dkids%2Din%2DSeattle
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTQgfXb87k">Streetwise is an oscar nominated 1984 vérité doc</a> that follows teenage vagrants and prostitutes in downtown Seattle. The doc stemmed from a <a href="http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-021.html">Life magazine photo essay</a> about runaway kids in Seattle. The Jeff Bridges movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103670/">American Heart</a> is based on one of the stories in the doc and the Streetwise crew also served as the inspiration for AMC's The Killing. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetwise_%281984_film%29#What_became_of_the_kids">You can find out where the kids are now</a>, but I recommend watching the doc first! tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148221Mon, 23 Mar 2015 06:57:16 -0800rageagainsttherobotsThe Sigh Guyhttp://www.metafilter.com/148191/The%2DSigh%2DGuy
New documentary <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1533089/">Tab Hunter Confidential</a> is the story of the squeaky-clean 1950s teen idol whose career was nearly wrecked by gay rumours broken by the notorious <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/55662/Robert-Harrison-and-Confidential">Confidential</a> magazine. Rumours that happened to be <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/50s-idol-Tab-Hunter-had-a-secret-He-s-gay-And-2561760.php">true.</a> The movie star who epitomised the Eisenhower era's idea of the young American male, clean-cut and impossibly handsome <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002147/">Tab Hunter</a> was a bobbysoxer's delight. Warner Bros. signed him as the alternative to his 'bad boy' peer James Dean, though Hunter beat Dean to get his breakthrough role in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047860/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_70">Battle Cry</a>.
Convinced to give acting a go by his mentor Dick Clayton, he walked into legendary agent <a href="http://brightlightsfilm.com/inside-dreamboat-factory-fairy-godfather-hollywood/">Henry Willson</a>'s office as Art Gelien and, like Willson's other beefcake productions Rock Hudson and Troy Donahue, was re-named and packaged for stardom.
Soon he would be on the cover of innumerable fan magazines, romantically linked to various starlets. He also had a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEg5oWW5F2c">notable singing career</a> and knocked Elvis off the top of the charts. Warner Bros. Records was quickly <a href="http://www.out.com/entertainment/today-gay-history/2013/07/11/today-gay-history-tab-hunter">established on his behalf.</a> He was the studio's <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/tab-hunter-opens-up-life-781046">top grossing star between 1955 and 1959</a>. The studio called 6ft Hunter '<a href="http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20144742,00.html">The Sigh Guy</a>' and cast him in movies where his shirts had a convenient habit of <a href="http://www.out.com/sites/out.com/files/imce/tab3.jpg">coming off.</a>
Warners particularly pushed his nights out with <a href="http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/309214%7C0/The-Girl-He-Left-Behind.html">co-star Natalie Woods</a>. After the <a href="http://classicmoviechat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Nat-and-Tab-Hunter-natalie-wood-30447848-375-500.jpg">pictures</a> were taken, Woods would leave for dates with Dennis Hopper while Hunter headed out to meet his boyfriend <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/greenman2008/8709058183/">Tony Perkins</a>.
The <em>Confidential</em> story is widely considered to have been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Willson">placed by Willson</a> both as an act of revenge on Hunter, who had moved to another agent, and as a way to shift attention off of his main meal ticket, Hudson, whose sexuality remained secret for <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/nancy-reagan-turned-down-rock-hudsons-plea-for-help-seven-we#.gsAoAXQJN">most of his life</a>.
Private and happy to have left fame behind, Hunter only co-wrote his 2005 memoir at the urging of his partner Allan Glaser when he heard of an unauthorised biography being put together: <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/tab-hunter-opens-up-life-781046">"I thought, 'Look, get it from the horse's mouth and not from some horse's ass after I'm dead and gone"</a>.
The documentary (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKrhi2una2w">trailer</a>) was directed by Jeffrey Schwarz, who had interviewed Hunter for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1356790/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_3">I Am Divine</a> about Hunter's <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082926/?ref_=nm_knf_i3">Polyester</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089523/?ref_=nm_knf_i2">Lust in the Dust</a> co-star:<a href="https://twitter.com/BFIFlare/status/579363745752870912"> "She was one of my favourite leading ladies. Natalie Wood, Sophia Loren...Divine."</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148191Sun, 22 Mar 2015 04:38:03 -0800Gin and BroadbandWinter Birdwatching in Jersey Cityhttp://www.metafilter.com/148006/Winter%2DBirdwatching%2Din%2DJersey%2DCity
<a href="https://vimeo.com/90404675">A short film</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.148006Mon, 16 Mar 2015 11:00:22 -0800rtha"The Pueblo people orchestrated the unthinkable"http://www.metafilter.com/147930/The%2DPueblo%2Dpeople%2Dorchestrated%2Dthe%2Dunthinkable
<a href="https://vimeo.com/75840615">Frontera! Revolt and Rebellion on the Rio Grande</a> (20:06; 2014) is an experimental animated documentary that briefly describes the <a href="https://archive.org/details/journeyofalvarnu00nune">Narváez</a>, <a href="https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pb6j8fx#page-4">de Niza</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/spanishexplorers00n">Coronado</a>, and <a href="http://newmexicohistory.org/people/juan-de-onate">Oñate</a> expeditions en route to an account of <a href="http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/national-statuary-hall-collection/popay">Po'pay</a> and the <a href="http://international.loc.gov/intldl/eshtml/es-1/es-1-3-5.html">Pueblo Revolt</a>. It features music by Greg Landau ("<a href="https://vimeo.com/29935344">Women of the City</a>" with Omar Sosa) with lyrics and vocals by Deuce Eclipse (<a href="https://soundcloud.com/deuce-eclipse">SoundCloud</a>; "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIJhjxmEfDc">Que Pasa</a>" with J-Boogie). tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147930Sat, 14 Mar 2015 03:22:46 -0800Monsieur Caution